{"id":18,"date":"2018-01-16T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2023-01-25T10:51:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T10:51:39","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About the College of Social Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2018\/01\/crowd-crossing-street.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2018\/01\/crowd-crossing-street.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2018\/01\/crowd-crossing-street-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2018\/01\/crowd-crossing-street-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2018\/01\/crowd-crossing-street-250x83.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro_user\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/university\/colleges\/socsci\/index.aspx\">The College of Social Sciences<\/a> brings together over 360 academics (including 86 professors) and 264 professional staff across a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. Around 25% of our staff are international and combined with over 42,500 global alumni representing over 185 countries, our work impacts all areas of society grounded in the key disciplines of business, economics, education, government and society, and social policy.<\/p>\n<p>Our research makes a real difference and our teaching ensures the next generation of social scientists will continue to transform their knowledge into policies and practices for individuals, organisations and governments alike in the UK and internationally.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"btn icon--action\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/university\/colleges\/socsci\/research\/index.aspx\">More about research in the College<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More blogs from around the College<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/business-school\/\">Birmingham Business School Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\">City REDI Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\">International Development Department (IDD)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Social Sciences brings together over 360 academics (including 86 professors) and 264 professional staff across a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. Around 25% of our staff are international and combined with over 42,500 global alumni representing over 185 countries, our work impacts all areas of society grounded in the key disciplines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/about-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the College of Social Sciences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5500,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/5500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}